Re: HYPERBOREA ADVENTURE THREE-PACK KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!

Blackadder23 wrote:

The campaign now has more backers, as well as a larger total, than the Kickstarter for the boxed set had! A testimony to Jeff's deserved reputation for quality and integrity.

Plus, I think adventures are a product that probably tends to interest mainly referees and collectors, whereas the boxed set interested players as well. So, I suspect the hardback second print could generate an even stronger response. We'll see!

Blackadder23: Insanely long villain soliloquy, then "Your action?"BORGO'S PLAYER: I shoot him in the face

Re: HYPERBOREA ADVENTURE THREE-PACK KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!

I think there is in general a strong and growing demand for quality old school rpg products with a strong sense of character and good artistic direction. Coupled with the fact that much of the OSR seems to be winding down its publication rate if anything i suspect that future projects will be even more successful.

Re: HYPERBOREA ADVENTURE THREE-PACK KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!

Chainsaw wrote:

Blackadder23 wrote:

The campaign now has more backers, as well as a larger total, than the Kickstarter for the boxed set had! A testimony to Jeff's deserved reputation for quality and integrity.

Plus, I think adventures are a product that probably tends to interest mainly referees and collectors, whereas the boxed set interested players as well. So, I suspect the hardback second print could generate an even stronger response. We'll see!

No doubt, BA23 is spot on. North Wind products have made an impression on followers of the OSR, deservedly so. Few can match the production quality, artistic value and creativity. I wasn't around for the original boxed set KS, so I'm very excited to see how the hardcover does!

Re: HYPERBOREA ADVENTURE THREE-PACK KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!

Chainsaw wrote:

I thought it was New England elder gods cultist - no?

Like this?

“I dun’t keer what folks think—ef Lavinny’s boy looked like his pa, he wouldn’t look like nothin’ ye expeck. Ye needn’t think the only folks is the folks hereabaouts. Lavinny’s read some, an’ has seed some things the most o’ ye only tell abaout. I calc’late her man is as good a husban’ as ye kin find this side of Aylesbury; an’ ef ye knowed as much abaout the hills as I dew, ye wouldn’t ast no better church weddin’ nor her’n. Let me tell ye suthin’—some day yew folks’ll hear a child o’ Lavinny’s a-callin’ its father’s name on the top o’ Sentinel Hill!” (HPL, "The Dunwich Horror")

You know, that really doesn't sound that different from "backwoods West Virginia elder gods cultist"*. Maybe Lovecraft was onto something when he suggested a widespread conspiracy!

Re: HYPERBOREA ADVENTURE THREE-PACK KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!

The_Great_Lestrade wrote:

I think there is in general a strong and growing demand for quality old school rpg products with a strong sense of character and good artistic direction. Coupled with the fact that much of the OSR seems to be winding down its publication rate if anything i suspect that future projects will be even more successful.

Yeah, yet another "book" with re-treaded rangers, monks, and thief-acrbats, for <insert OSR system> has gotten plain old boring.

Re: HYPERBOREA ADVENTURE THREE-PACK KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!

Blackadder23 wrote:

Chainsaw wrote:

I thought it was New England elder gods cultist - no?

Like this?

“I dun’t keer what folks think—ef Lavinny’s boy looked like his pa, he wouldn’t look like nothin’ ye expeck. Ye needn’t think the only folks is the folks hereabaouts. Lavinny’s read some, an’ has seed some things the most o’ ye only tell abaout. I calc’late her man is as good a husban’ as ye kin find this side of Aylesbury; an’ ef ye knowed as much abaout the hills as I dew, ye wouldn’t ast no better church weddin’ nor her’n. Let me tell ye suthin’—some day yew folks’ll hear a child o’ Lavinny’s a-callin’ its father’s name on the top o’ Sentinel Hill!” (HPL, "The Dunwich Horror").